Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-06
STRAY erTs.

An Indian woman, tho last of the Hum boldt tribe, recently died at Oakland, DIT.
 There are said to be only four horses in Alaska, three at Juneau, and one al Sitka
 An interesting sale of autographs recently took place in Paris Liszt's signature brought SO, while Zola's sold for slS0.
 The first Mormon temple in Wisconsin was dedicated at East Delevan recently. The building is small and unprctcntious.
 Berlin has technical high school, built by the city at a cost of S4, ,s00, 900, and main tained at an annual cost of sloo.ooo.
 In Ohio 100 farmers institutes will be held next winter as part of the commelnoratioa of the Tooth anniversary of the founding of the state.
 The favorite stage of the late King Louie of Bavaria has been purchased by travel ing circus. Even his shirts have been sos6 at auction A
 A new way to make sure of dreaming oHa wedding cake has been discovered, @i-- spigrammatically expressed by contempo- rary: "Eat it. .n
 Dr. Schaeffer, of Washington, asserts sol smnly that walking on railroad ties is fine exercise and conducive to health. This will tighten the hearts of many theatrical people.
 Irwin Bleichart, who runs a shifting en- zine at Lebanon, Pa., claims to be the youngest locomotive engineer in the country, if not in the world. He is only IS, and has been at the business two years.
 The proper thing in neckwear among the wells of San Antonio, Tex, is a scarf made ,f rattlesnake skin, with a pin composed of :he. snakes rattles. The skins are prepared by Texan, who has a snake ranche near the .ity.
 Burnt wood ornaments are really works of art this season, so exquisite is the shading upon them. One of the prettiest is an owl, who conceals an ink well somewhere in his portly body, and whose markings are indi- :ated by burning, which must have been lone with a fairy torch
 Photographic communication will shortly begin between Russia and France. All dis patches at present come through Germany, ard have recently been tempered with at Berlin. Russia, in the case of a war between Germany and Austria, would be entirely cut off from telegraphic communication with the remainder of Europe.
 There are % blast furnaces in and about Pittsburg, S5 rolling mills, 30 steel works, IS window glass works, 8 flint glass works and n green glass works The blast furnaces make 900 900 tons of iron per year, the roll ing mills 575, 900 tons, steel works 750,0oo tons, plate glass works 5000 square feet, window glass works o00,00
 A North Carolinian, recently returned from Japan, says that in Q few years the Japanese will be the greatest railroad build PTS in the world He bases his judgment on the fact that the Japanese arc great patrons of railroads Even when they have no busi- ness to transact they ride back and forth on she cars until their money is gone, even the beggars in the large towns spending their money in this curious way.
 It is not generally known that the woridas supply of pencil wood is drawn from the gulf coast swnmps on both sides of Cedar Keys, and that the product of the inills there is shipped not only to the New York and New Jersey factories, but also to Ger many, and, perhaps, other countries of Eu- rope. That nothing may be lost, the aw- lust is distilled ip largo rctorts and tho oil extracted, every ounce of which finds rmdy salc